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Saturday, April 19, 2008

Jessica Rabbit

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So this ended up taking quite a bit longer than the last 2 even though I had expected a pretty easy time with it. I was able to complete the face relatively quickly but the real challenge was everything from her neck down. Trying to piece together parts of a body from multiple photos on top of a highly disproportionate body was pretty difficult. I considered only doing the face but I predicted pitchforks and torches if I chose that route. Creating the sequins took a bit of time too. I recently saw some camera effects in a music video I tried to duplicate too with the streaked brightness which I gave a shot here to add to the whole realism.

Anyway, I recorded the first hour of the creation of this one using Camtasia which includes all the face elements and the hair. It's not the complete process since this ended up taking a few hours longer than anticipated but I think it will help the curious get a general idea of how this was accomplished. It's sped up a bunch and so it only takes 10 minutes to view. I have to edit together some of the footage but once I get that done i'll post it here in a few days. (*UPDATE*: its posted here now)

Since Stewie Griffin was second in the poll, I'll work on him the next time I make an untoon.*UPDATE* Hey all, I just wanted to clarify a bit. Perhaps "untoon" is the wrong word for this but the exercise here was to take the exact cartoon proportions of Jessica and create her with realistic lighting and textures. As was done with Homer and Mario. I think because of her smooth skin the cartooniness definitely still comes through a lot more than Homer. Here is a side by side of the source image I started with.

First of all let me say that your work is fantastic. If I can criticize a little, I think is a little below of Homer and Mario in terms of quality: the texture of the skin in the face is a little too uniform, an something wrong happened with her earring. Nonetheless I think is an awesome work, keep it up!

Ok, after I sent my previous comment I wish I didn't. I know how hard work must have been, and I know the skin of Jessica must be smoother than the skin of Mario or Homer, so please nevermind my criticism. Best regards, and keep up the good work!

Wooooow... really, really nice!I was thinking, maybe after Stewie, the next one could be Charlie Brown, from Peanuts? That'd be a pretty good challenge as well...I can't wait until the video is out!Thank you for Jessica! She is really awesome!

Wow that is amazing yet a bit creppy because I think her Eye is a bit too big. Kinda reminds me of Lela from Futurama like she would only have one eye. The Rest of her is Amazing the skin,lips,Dress & the smokey background. You Sir indeed have talent!!!

Hello Jaxpixeloo my name is Undercover Agent i am a contributor for both n4g and rare-elite and i like your art-work u did here very impressive and i have posted them on n4g and Rare-Elite it sure got alot of comments and good rating so i would like to also see meg griffin from family guy ahahahaha would you be able to do her after stewie :)

Still looks like a cartoon, even the textures. At best it could pull off CG. Considering the amount of blog traffic, i'm glad i have ABP on jut to make sure I don't contribute any money to looking at something I couldn't just find on Google.

I thought the textures that came across were great, skin, lips, they all look very lifelike. The hair is amazing, can't wait to see your video for this. I'm not sure how it could be viewed as cartoonish still, since other than the odd proportions it looks pretty much like something you'd see in the pages of a magazine. Impressive.

You do great work, and would love to see some of the old Cartoons come to life. Bugs and his gang, Or hell even Mickey would be cool to see come to life. Who ever you work for, there not paying you enough!. Keep it up.

Great job again...it's awesome!I noticed that some people have not been surprised from the final result.It's normal that the final impact is not the same as Homer and Mario...she is already a human, very close to real person..so there is not so much challange on this character. Everybody wanted so much to see her untooned cause she is really hot...but i imagined the result. Anyway, the work is great as always..and the final result is perfect. I'm curious to see Stewee...and popeye too...this two characters are very funny shape and surely would be really cool untooned! I think this is the real mission of Pixeloo...untooing those character that nobody would imagine untooned !!! I hope to see also a tutorial, or just some tips (in case you don't want to reveal your secrets). See you on the next work.

Dude, this is pretty close to perfect for what you are trying to accomplish. The fact that her skin doesn't look real enough should actually be deliberate. What do you think all that pancake makeup women use for glamour photos is for?

i'm still looking forward to popeye (or stewie), i think jessica rabbit is a little too "normal" to be untooned, i mean with homer and mario we got drawings with un-proportioned facial features, just look at homer's eyes or mario's nose, with jessica we only got what... big eyelids? a tiny nose?

don't get me wrong, i think what you did to jessica's drawing was great, its just that, as i said, untooned jessica doesn't have the same charm as homer and mario

Hey, really creative stuff. Here's a suggestion. Some Mike Judge stuff. Not unnecessarily Beavis and Butthead, but moreso King of the Hill or some of the B and B supporting cast. it'd be interesting to see because Judge usually keeps them pretty proportionate so your version would probably be the most humanistic and realistic.

Man...you are the best!!!!!!!!!!!You are a hero for a lot of people!!PLEASE keep your work always!Hugs and greetings from brazilPS>Hey..i can´t imagine how you would do GOKU from dragon ball...its bizzarre LOL

Your work is really beautiful and you're amazingly talented! I'd love to see an un-tooned anime, like Sailor Moon lol. Or Link or Zelda or Princess Toadstool from the Nintendo games. Anyway, thanks for sharing your lovely work!

Amazing, I think this one is the most successful or at least the one that is the least creepy. I like the Mario you did as well but it's kinda a trip to see these cartoon characters in a more photo-real style.

She turned out great man, I imagine your going to get some freelance work out of this.

not to criticise your work, which is impeccable by the way. but Jessica Rabbit's eyelid and eyebrow are kinda of strange. everything else about her is so perfect but her eyelid keeps grabbing my attention in a negative way. its kind of creepy and distorted. it seems like a totally different style of art than the rest of the picture.

Wow that is flipping amazing. I love the detail, even in the hair, wow. My hubby is a HUGE King of the Hill fan and would love to see either Dale or Hank "untooned". Look forward to seeing more of your work.

FANTASTIC--really amazing work. I would love to know more about what you do towards the end of the process, like adding the smoke, lighting, and the way you make the hair look so REAL around the edges! I watched the video of the first hour of work and I think I understood most of what you did (what's the tool you use to warp and reshape sections?) but I would love to know more about the finishing!

wow its awsome! i like it a lot, i want to do something like that (i hope you wont mind) but... how do you pick the pictures you are going to use?. for example how did you know that that pic of angelina was perfect fot the toon? (at least you make it appear like a perfect pic for the toon)renparbar@yahoo.es

Please do the disney princess after disney, i would really appreciate it. or better yet, because im doing a project about it... can you do the following next...

Snow WhitePinocchioThe Little Mermaid (Ariel)Sleeping BeautyAladdin and JasmineBeauty and the Beast (Belle and Beast)Hunchback of Notre Dame (Esmeralda, ooh do quasimodo)I can even send you the pictures.

I have to say, I'm not impressed. I think you could have chosen a better source image, one where her bottom lip doesn't look like it was stung by a bee. Also if the only person you referenced was Angelina Jolie, then that was a mistake. She has pencil thin eyebrows similar to Pamela Anderson. The eyebrow you gave her looks pretty terrible. Maybe everyone says she still looks like a cartoon because overall her face is pretty flat. Try putting a little gloss on her lips to add the illusion of dimension. Use the burn tool to define her face around the cheek bones and chin. Also someone else had mentioned that the texture of the skin on her face was too uniform and I have to agree. I guess overall you did a good enough job to get tons of diggs, but from an artists perspective I'd say it's unfinished.

Please do the disney princess after disney, i would really appreciate it. or better yet, because im doing a project about it... can you do the following next...

Snow WhitePinocchioThe Little Mermaid (Ariel)Sleeping BeautyAladdin and JasmineBeauty and the Beast (Belle and Beast)Hunchback of Notre Dame (Esmeralda, ooh do quasimodo)I can even send you the pictures.

email me at theartsofchaos@live.comi tried to this and i have no idea how!

Natural red hair does tend to be coarser even than American native hair, but whether by accident or by design, you managed to recapture realism in Jessica's finer hair texture with just a hint of brunette roots.

Like a few others here, I would be curious to see Jessica incarnated with slightly more realistic proportions (well, facial proportions, anyway).

I know a flaming redhead in real life who looks and dresses like Jessica Rabbit. Even with a real human face there is no mistaking her resemblance to the original toon. I would call her an "incarnation".

This also leads me to wonder what you could do with other femmes like Nikita, Lara Croft, Barbarella, Aeon Flux, Wonder Woman, Archie's Veronica, Betty Rubble... Olive Oyl ?!?

I love your works, but I'm curious how u did the stretching/morphing/distortion of the image, i watch the vid and can't seem to get what exact tool you used, hope you can give me a clue or something. Thanks..

i don't like this one that much, it looks less "untooned" and more like an airbrush painting than a real person with skin. the mario and homer ones had a real look to them, but this one still looks like the cartoon more than a real person.

I don't know if you read all your comments or not, but I wanted to join the many others in saying these pictures are AWESOME. It's such a great concept/idea, and it shows a great mastery of photoshop.

But! You know this picture would be a HIT poster! You could make so much money selling the rights of it to a poster company. Especially if you made a realistic Stewie picture (and it not look too creepy) there is a HUGE business in novelty Family Guy items: posters, toys, etc.

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